In this guest post, Predibase team discusses their recent release of LoRA Land that they built to demonstrate a real world example of how smaller, task-specific fine-tuned models can cost-effectively outperform leading commercial alternatives. It’s a fascinating read!…
Google Goes Small and Open Source with Gemma
Gemma is based on the core architecture powering Gemini….
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI…
The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development, with everyone…
UK Home Secretary sounds alarm over deepfakes ahead of elections
Criminals and hostile state actors could hijack Britain’s democratic process by deploying AI-generated “deepfakes” to mislead voters, UK Home Secretary James Cleverly cautioned in remarks ahead of meetings with major tech companies. Speaking to The Times, Cleverly emphasised the rapid advancement of AI technology and its…
Mistral AI unveils LLM rivalling major players
Mistral AI, a France-based startup, has introduced a new large language model (LLM) called Mistral Large that it claims can compete with several top AI systems on the market.  Mistral AI stated that Mistral Large outscored most major LLMs except for OpenAI’s recently launched GPT-4 in…
Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data If so, you’re in good company….